Thinking Slide:List some of the most famous

people in the U.S.

Fads: - something people follow with great excitement for a short period of time

Flappers – women who cut their hair short and wore loose clothing that flapped in the wind

Fads included- (1) Flag pole sitting, (2) Dance Marathons, and (3) Flappers…

Radio:-Like today’s TV, families would gather around the radio for news and entertainment

- On Nov. 2, 1920, Pittsburgh Radio station KDKA was the 1st to report the presidential election results (who won?).

-By 1929, 10 million radios were in American households

Nickelodeons-Called Nickelodeons because they only cost a nickel for admission.

-Early movies were silent until…

-The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolsen was the first movie with sound.

1920s Sports:

-Organized sports became more popular, Americans made celebrities out of star athletes

-Jim Thorpe was considered one of the greatest athletes of the 1920s

-Babe Ruth would become one of baseball’s greatest homerun hitters.

Daredevils:-Charles Lindbergh became the 1st person to fly across the Atlantic (many died before him)

-His plane was called “The Spirit of St. Louis”

-A year later, Amelia Earhart became the 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

The Harlem Renaissance

Two forms of music emerged from the 1920s. Blues and Jazz. Listen to the next two songs. Tell me which is Jazz and which is Blues. Also, What is the difference? (instruments, rythmn,

etc.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQCwoas3rk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N1ZSXfFD_M

Terms

Harlem is an area of New York City which became a black community during the twenties.Renaissance means a rebirth or revival of intellectual and/or artistic achievement. (Michaelangelo was a product of the Italian Renaissance, which marked the transition from medieval to modern times.)

As a result, Harlem became the nation’s largest African- American community in the 1920s.

Purpose of the Harlem Renaissance:This literary movement gave black men and women a chance to create their own images and express their unique experiences as black Americans in the United States. College-educated African American men and women flocked to Harlem to share their ideas, write poetry and novels, paint pictures, and produce movies. Their written and artistic works celebrated the vitality of life and reflected the black cultural heritage.African-Americans found a new sense of independence and developed pride in their own traditions.- As a result, Harlem became the country’s largest African American Community in the 1920s

Problems of the Harlem Renaissance:1. Overcrowding and high

rents. Often, White land lords would charge rent that was far above the market value.

2. Unable to support themselves with their art, African Americans often took menial jobs. Often causing dissention amongst African-Americans.

3. Whites would flock to Harlem for entertainment but still did not accept African-Americans as equals. Banning them from the Harlem theaters and clubs where they performed.

2 new styles of music

Blues Music Jazz Music Formed in the Mississippi

Delta

Developed from Spirituals that enslaved African-Americans sung

Instruments used were: 1. guitar 2. harmonica 3. piano

* W.C. Handy was considered the “Father of Blues Music”

Developed in the South (Cities like New Orleans)

Some Jazz musicians include: Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton, Edward “Duke” Ellington and Charlie “Bird” Parker

Jazz music was so captivating that people often refer to the 1920s as The Jazz Age.

Inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to write “The Great Gatsby”, capturing the spirit of the Jazz age

Poetry from Harlem

“Enslaved” by Claude McKay

“The City’s Love” by Claude McKay

OH when I think of my long-suffering race, For weary centuries despised, oppressed, Enslaved and lynched, denied a human

place In the great life line of the Christian West; And in the Black Land disinherited, Robbed in the ancient country of its birth, My heart grows sick with hate, becomes as

lead, For this my race that has no home on earth. Then from the dark depths of my soul I cry To the avenging angel to consume The white man's world of wonders utterly: Let it be swallowed up in earth's vast womb, Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke To liberate my people from its yoke!

For one brief golden moment rare like wine,

The gracious city swept across the line;

Oblivious of the color of my skin, Forgetting that I was an alien guest, She bent to me, my hostile heart to

win, Caught me in passion to her pillowy

breast; The great, proud city, seized with a

strange love, Bowed down for one flame hour my

pride to prove.